Bob Allen, Seth Payne host new Channel 11 sports show tonight

Bob Allen, right, joined KHOU in April after leaving KTRK in January, ending a near 40-year run at the news station. (Melissa Phillip/Chronicle)

Bob Allen will be joined by former Texans lineman and current KILT (610 AM) talk show host Seth Payne as hosts of “Sports Extra,” which debuts on KHOU (Channel 11) at 10:25 p.m. Sunday.

Allen, the longtime KTRK (Channel 13) anchor who joined Channel 11 earlier this year, said the show will be Texans-heavy through the end of the year but will continue year-round with what he described as a “smattering of opinion and humor.”

“We want this to be different than the other Sunday night sports shows,” Allen said. “It’s going to be edgier and looser and won’t be so tightly scripted that if we get talking about a topic that we have to wrap it up too quickly.”

Allen said the 35-minute show will attempt to involve viewers through social media and will include a recap of the week’s sports news and an athlete of the week segment.